Recipient of the 2013 and 2016 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize Paper Awards; 2021 ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award; 2013 IEEE SECON Best Paper Award; 2016 KAIST Grand Prize Technology Innovation Award; 2016 Haedong Grand Prize Research Award; his research group at KAIST has won 3 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze prizes at the Samsung Electronics HumanTech paper competitions.
Research Experience
Was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. Currently, he is an ICT Endowed Chair Professor, Head of the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, Director of KAIST AI Institutes, Founding Director of KAIST Edge AI Research Center, and was the Founding Director of KAIST 5G Mobile Network Research Center.
Education
Received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical and computer engineering.
Background
Research interests lie in decision making under uncertainty, human behavior modelling, mathematical optimization and machine learning with applications to artificial intelligence, data networks and mobile computing.
Miscellany
Member of the Presidential Committee on National AI Strategy of Korea; served on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Computer Communications; Steering Committee Chair of WiOpt; serves on the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Committee; General Chair of ACM MobiHoc 2022 and WiOpt 2009, and the Program Committee Chair of IEEE WCNC 2020 and IEEE SECON 2015.